Tom Ricks - The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq 2006-2008
First Aired: May 4, 2009
Thomas E. Ricks is The Washington Post's special military correspondent and a Pulitzer Prize-winner. Prior to joining the Washington Post in 2000, Ricks was a reporter with the Wall Street Journal for seventeen years. He discusses why the surge failed and what's in the future for that swamp in the desert we call Iraq.
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Scott Horton Interviews Lawrence Wilkerson on March 27th, 2009
Lawrence Wilkerson is former chief of staff to Colin Powell, Secretary of State. He discusses Dick Cheney's assertion that torture prevents terrorism. Wilkerson also says he would cooperate with the prosecution of Dick Cheney for war crimes.
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